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4/22/2013 3:11PM

U.S. Eyes Pushback on China Hacking

The Obama administration is considering a raft of options to confront China more aggressively over cyberspying, officials say, a potentially rapid escalation of a conflict the White House has only recently acknowledged. Siobhan Gorman reports. Photo: Getty.

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... I ... the last standing up the heat on China about hacking back is the front page of today's Wall Street with a story by Sean Gorman ... while commit Digits I'm Simon Constable Vaughan joins us now from Washington DC should bomb thanks for being map ... great spirit ... so we we know that the US has accused China of all ... hacking U S companies ... announced that the US is turning up but he won a dairying is actually the town of Lackey ... well right now though why so White House is assessing a number of options to ... take action that would fall out cut and that the accelerated rhetoric that we've seen on the part of the devastation officials of the last couple months and ... among the things that they're looking at our ... I'm doing formal prosecutions against individual Chinese hackers of trying ... different types of diplomatic pressure perhaps her Rehling other governments to re enforce the mass its I've read me ... cases are putting on the agenda of the World Trade Organization some of these hacking Issues ... and possibly Cyber authentic defences clout ... to slow growth and Sudeep fans is going to see him be very much like to buy the company said in the US that so the things they've been ... hacked by the Chinese ... on other Chinese cities saying no we we didn't know trust or evidence ... write ... to us and and in response to that date U S government actually did that exact thing and a about ... May of two thousand and twelve after a head and frustrated by repeated times denials ... on the day as hard as they have regular diplomatic meeting with China ... very high state Department brought me U S intelligence officials who spent two hours laying out in meticulous detail ... three different cases of Chinese hacking so what US officials say at this point is they they feel that they believe presented the evidence that the times that are ... now in January aided in your story is hasn't generated the state of mind issue debt paid them much a ... one is that Sen and what does it mean ... well it's a formal complaint that the State Department makes CEO and other government hands ... well into March and of itself doesn't necessarily have a NFX when this was ... in this case was a formalizing of complaints that they have been making privately over the last few months and ... in no way a little bit of a heads up that they're the administration is serious and is looking to turn the heat out ... and is particularly with Chinese courts are doing ... taking actions through formal channels does really mean something ... so the son of like setting the scene for more action and that that gives the Chinese ... government the chance to so to get ready for this is that as of the best tactic of the gonna be more likely to respond favorably to that ... well at this financing for the administration's perspective they know that they've cut to the Chinese on their debts and ... there is talk now as a working grip between the U S and China and to try to ... sort through some of these I really difficult cybersecurity issues and packing it says when I talk with at people market securities cited the U S government they're still ... very skeptical that the time is really going to back off on ... some of these hacking activities because they feel that that the hacking is actually at the central component of national policy ... and it's it's one of the ways that China is building up their tea industries whether its energy or high tech for things like that so ... that's can it be at a really difficult decision for China today whether ... it wants to I had ... inserted ... we need some of the U S demands for stopping these kinds of activities of perhaps in in conflict with what has been part of its national policy not to restart the perspective of the people who work on the security citing mascot ... design will be interesting to see how it all plays out thank you very much will go ... to Wall Street John all ... things here ... and in you can read more by great story Global stuff